POP; Jazz Eminence, Ancient Setting

By NATE CHINEN

Published: March 10, 2013

will be streamed online, encompasses most of Mr. Lloyd’s recent history on the ECM label. He’ll play duets with the pianist Jason Moran, as on a beautiful new album called “Hagar’s Song.” He’ll lead his lithe working quartet, with Mr. Moran, the bassist Reuben Rogers and the drummer Eric Harland. (Mr. Moran’s wife, the operatic soprano Alicia Hall Moran, will join as a guest.)">

The gentle jazz sage Charles Lloyd turns 75 on Friday, and he’ll celebrate in public, at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sober antiquity of the setting should suit Mr. Lloyd, a saxophonist and flutist who found fame in the psychedelic era and then retreated from it, eventually returning as an unhurried seeker, and one of the most lyrical improvisers of our time.

The concert, which will be streamed online, encompasses most of Mr. Lloyd’s recent history on the ECM label. He’ll play duets with the pianist Jason Moran, as on a beautiful new album called “Hagar’s Song.” He’ll lead his lithe working quartet, with Mr. Moran, the bassist Reuben Rogers and the drummer Eric Harland. (Mr. Moran’s wife, the operatic soprano Alicia Hall Moran, will join as a guest.)

PHOTO: Charles Lloyd is to perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur on Friday. (PHOTOGRAPH BY D. DARR)

will be streamed online, encompasses most of Mr. Lloyd’s recent history on the ECM label. He’ll play duets with the pianist Jason Moran, as on a beautiful new album called “Hagar’s Song.” He’ll lead his lithe working quartet, with Mr. Moran, the bassist Reuben Rogers and the drummer Eric Harland. (Mr. Moran’s wife, the operatic soprano Alicia Hall Moran, will join as a guest.)">